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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16h

"AI is a power tool, and like any power tool it’s dangerous if you’re careless with it. You can be the guy who warned everyone that a table saw can cut your fingers off and still lose a finger one day.…" — Don’t Write With AI, Say People Who Write With AI [Will Oremus / The Atlantic] […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Gerbil. Journalist Allen Salkin’s multipart investigative podcast about that rumor about Richard Gere. “A deep dive into Hollywood’s most infamous rumor — and what it reveals about celebrity, gossip, power, the internet and our own brains.” I’m not sure about this podcast but I enjoyed the […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16h

A Reckoning in Springfield [Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic] Trucker Jack Buhring wrestles with trauma after he accidentally struck and killed 20-year-old Haitian legal immigrant Pierre Damas Bel on the highway outside Springfield, Ohio. Bel, who had never violated any law and who had a […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17h

The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary [Josh Dzieza / The Verge] Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

How do you solve a problem like a paywall? The current state of paywalls means everybody loses, writes journalist CT Jones. Readers find it difficult to gain access to articles. News organizations, who are desperate for readers, are pushing those readers away. AI and SEO slop fills the gap — as […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed and donated a floating children’s library. "In a letter to the children, Ando writes: “I hope they will travel around the world aboard a ship of hope, equipped with the knowledge and imagination to do so. I hope that, by reading many books aboard the […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I took Minnie back to the vet to check on the progress of her ulcerated eye and find out if we can stop giving her eyedrops and take the cone off her. The vet tech took her in back and I sat in the waiting room until they were done. Two women came in with a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

HPE lands first AMD Helios order in $1.2B Vultr deal. HPE’s first AMD Helios order, from Vultr, flexes the merged HPE-Juniper’s capabilities as a full-stack provider. My latest on Fierce Network. www.fierce-network.com/broadband/hp…

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Japanese novelty pocket calculator from the 1990s designed to look like an open pack of Mild Seven Lights cigarettes, with cylindrical number and operation keys styled to resemble cigarette filters. From the comments: “Extra points for carrying it rolled it […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Attack of the Night People [Cautionary Tales/Tim Hartford]: ‘If you tuned in to late-night WOR radio in 1950s New York, you’d enter the secret world of Jean Shepherd. Shepherd’s nonconformist style, off-beat humour and love of pranks gathered a small but loyal following. These “Night People” […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Finding a dead bug floating around in your water glass is bad, but not finding the bug is worse.

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The dog needs eye drops. I give her a treat before and after to offset the discomfort and I put the treats up on a high shelf before starting the procedure. This morning I stepped away for a few minutes and when I came back, Julie told me the treats were gone […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Please enjoy this trailer for the movie "Convoy" featuring some unbelievable talent for what seems to be cinematic schlock — Kris Kristofferson! Ali McGraw! Ernest Borgnine! directed by Sam Peckinpah! — and a cover of the CW McCall novelty song with the same title […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Hal Jordan and John Stewart are modeling the mentor/mentee relationship poorly.

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

There is a unique disappointment when you ordered something fun from Amazon and you see the package at your front door and you open it and you see that it is the toothbrushes which you had momentarily forgotten you also ordered.

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The Imaginary Worlds podcast reflects on how “myths like Pygmalion or Pandora reflect primal human desires and fears that have an effect on the development of AI," and talks with “audio journalist Rebecca Nolan about her experience trying to bring her father back from the underworld as a chatbot […]

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